No Porn On Sony HD-DVD Blu-ray? — Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because Sony does not allow XXX-rated movies to be released on Blu-ray. — It does not matter how you stand to porn.

Apple vs. Cisco over iPhone — I was just on the phone with Garvin Thomas, a reporter from NBC11 News who wanted my take on the iPhone lawsuit between Apple and Cisco and to discuss what he learned. First, when you search the US Patent and Trademark Office database for iPhone …

Does The iPhone Need Patents? — from the questions,-questions dept — A bunch of folks have noted that Steve Jobs seemed mighty excited about the 200 or so patents Apple has filed around some of the technology involved in the iPhone (or whatever it's going to be called).

Phone Shows Apple's Impact on Consumer Products — Apple's new iPhone appears to be the clearest statement yet of what Steve Jobs's impact has been on consumer electronics. — It is not that he invents new technologies. He refines existing ones. — Mr. Jobs himself acknowledged …

Exclusive: Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla — The Venice Project is not just another online video start-up. The Luxembourg-based company is the latest co-production of the two-person hit factory of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The founders of Kazaa and Skype are hoping …

Report: Vista's business sales stronger than expected — update Sales of Windows Vista to businesses were stronger than expected during the operating system's debut month, according to a report from NPD Group. — The sales outpaced the first month's tally for Windows 2000 and only slightly trailed …

Complicated Laws = Free Calls — I'm still trying to figure out how this works, and by the time I do the service may be gone. Regardless, Iowa based AllFreeCalls is letting people make phone calls to many foreign countries for free. Or rather, for the cost of a call to Iowa.

Yahoo! Holder Building a Dissident Nation — One Yahoo! (YHOO - news - Cramer's Take) shareholder is mad and doesn't want to take it anymore. — Frustrated with the Internet giant's loss of more than one-third of its value in 2006, Eric Jackson wants to use the tactics of activist hedge funds …

Taming Mac OS X File Systems — Google is a fantastic company to work for. I could cite numerous reasons why. Take the concept of "20 percent time." Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20 percent of their time pursuing projects they're passionate about.

Radio goes the open source route — A new generation of broadcasters are to join the world's airwaves after the launch of open-source software which allows people to run a radio station from a single computer for free. — Campcaster takes a regular PC and turns it into a tool for managing every aspect of a radio station broadcast.

Wi-Fi VoIP and iPhone: New Competitors? — The unrelated announcements this week of Apple's iPhone and Vonage's plan to bundle Wi-Fi with VoIP got me thinking: Do we need some new competitive analysis to figure out what's really happening in the world of good ol' talk talk talk?